Ordinary People‚ by Judith Guest‚ was about a family who has had two tragedies and how they dealt with these tragedies. This story shows how the environment in which one lives affects ones reaction to tragedy. The Jarred family‚ were ordinary people. The family consisted of the father Calvin‚ the mother Beth and two sons Buck and Conrad. They were an upper class family in good financial standing. They apparently had a happy life until Buck died in a boating accident. Calvin was a concerned
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The Khoisan are the native people of southwestern Africa. They had been around since about 5th century A.D.‚ and were occupying southern Africa along with other Later Iron Age societies such as the Ovambo‚ Herero‚ Sotho-Tswana and Xhosa (Wikipedia‚ 2014; Shillington‚ 2012). Before the mid-1600s‚ the pastoralist Khoisan people‚ just like the other southern states and chiefdoms‚ had been sustaining themselves through the rearing‚ use‚ and exchange of Nguni sheep and cattle as well as the inter-regional
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Two Gallants A short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. Two men‚ Lenehan and Corley‚ are walking the streets of central Dublin on a Sunday evening. Corley dominates the conversation telling Lenehan about a girl he has recently seduced‚ a maid who works for a wealthy family. He brags about how the girl supplies him with cigars and cigarettes‚ which she steals from the family. Corley considers his relationship with this girl superior compared to when he used
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and joking with each other. Ann asks if Conrad was sick. Beth answers that he’s fine. After dinner‚ the guests gather in groups of two and three‚ discussing bridge‚ books‚ tennis‚ and other polite topics. Calvin recalls kissing Marty at a New Year’s party several years back; he felt guilty‚ but Beth never mentioned it. He gets into an uncomfortable conversation with Sara and Marty about Conrad; Marty’s son has said that Con has become less social‚ and misses swim practice several times a week
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and I always thought of that time as just for me. I would always thin of my bar but it was my alone time so to speak. My bar was located downtown of Chico. Smaller than most bars around the area but still it was always crowded and had a line of people waiting to get in. We had no dance floor‚ yet known for the best jukebox in town. We didn’t serve fancy drinks such as Martini’s‚ blended drinks‚ or anything that I would consider foo-foo drinks. We didn’t even serve single shots. If you wanted a
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3.5. Describe how to deal with disagreements between: ⍕the practitioner and children and young people ⍕the practitioner and other adults. Disagreements happen. Conflicts can have adverse effects on us all. As individual‚ whether at home‚ work or social setting us all have different opinions‚ values and concerns. Some conflicts are minor and others can become major. Usually conflicts are not resolved until we deal with them. One of the people involved in the conflict must decide to overcome the
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The short story “A Conversation with My Father” written by Grace Paley is a short story about a woman who is having a conversation with her elderly father. In this story‚ the narrator is telling‚ and retelling‚ her father a story about a mother and her desire to be close with her son no matter the cost or circumstance. Not only does this work involve various themes‚ but it also literary elements such as comedy‚ exaggeration‚ and irony. “A Conversation with My Father” is a short story that contains
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In spite of a world where the divergence of cultures is getting less in the course of time‚ clash of cultures still appear. In R. K. Narayan’s story ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ (1970) two persons from paradoxical cultures meet which leads to a massive communication gap exemplifying the inevitable differences between cultures. The story sets in India in a small town called Kiritam‚ the Tamil word for crown. The village is described as a “tiny dot”(p. 184‚ l. 2) and almost as an isolated dusty desert(p
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After Norman gets his job offer letter from the University of Chicago‚ he goes into the house to find his father reading aloud in his study. Norman and Reverend John Maclean recite various excerpts strung together from the poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth: (Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting The Soul that rises with us‚ our life’s Star‚) Hath had elsewhere its setting‚ And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness‚ And not in utter nakedness‚ But
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Caught between Two Worlds: The Search for Cultural Identity in Lahiri’s The Namesake Titien Diah Soelistyarini Abstract The question of identity is always a difficult one for those living in one culture‚ yet belonging to another. This question frequently lingers in the mind of most immigrants‚ especially the second generations who were born in a country other than their parents’ motherland. They feel culturally displaced as they are simultaneously living in two cultures. On the one hand‚ they
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